Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 317

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.) Pair of "War Sections" of Hearst's New York Journal with color covers. Each 16 pages, 21 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches; minor wear and toning. New York, 3 and 8 May 1898

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The New York Journal is often credited with helping to launch the Spanish-American War with its sensationalist accounts of Spanish atrocities. These two copiously illustrated issues, both reporting on the Battle of Manila, show the Journal in all of its jingoistic glory.